Bulimia.com Female video game characters such as Lara Croft from "Tomb Raider" have historically had body types that were far from "average."

Even beyond the impossibly proportioned women of early-console fighting games, most iconic female characters are, in various ways, stylized in an unrealistic way.

Bulimia.com, a collective dedicated to empowering those with eating disorders, has asked: "What would video game characters look like with average American bodies?"

The organization questions why — with games now featuring technical wonders such as natural cloud movements — they still don't usually portray the female body accurately and free from exaggerated proportions.

Though it's also true that video games certainly don't portray the average male body — with games such as "Gears of War" featuring hulking body types that are practically unobtainable — it's still useful to be reminded of just how far our fantastical representations can sometimes take us from reality. And that this could potentially have consequences.

Here is a series of graphics, created by Bulimia.com, that shows what different iconic female video game characters would look like with average American body proportions.